February 9, 2013

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

The Federal Aviation Administration has finally released a new drone authorization list. This list, released in response to …

Feb 9, 2013

President Obama adopted most of President Bush’s counter-terrorism policies, argues John Kiriakou - the former CIA official who blew the whistle on the agency's torture practices and is now set to go behind bars for it.

After 9/11 Kiriakou served as the chief of counter-terrorist operations in Pakistan. Now he is heading to prison,…

06/30/2010

TrueCrypt program defeats police dictionary attack

The FBI has admitted defeat in attempts to break the open source encryption used to secure hard drives seized by Brazilian police during a 2008 investigation.

The Bureau had been called in by the Brazilian authorities after the country's own National Institute of Criminology…

02/08/2013

The Department of Homeland Security’s civil rights watchdog has concluded that travelers along the nation’s borders may have their electronics seized and the contents of those devices examined for any reason whatsoever — all in the name of national security.

The DHS, which secures the nation’s border, in 2009 announced that it would conduct a “Civil…

February 9, 2013

An Egyptian court has ruled to ban video sharing portal YouTube for one month among the other websites hosting the controversial film trailer that mocked Islam and Prophet Mohammed.

Egypt’s administrative court on Saturday ordered the authorities to block access to YouTube and other websites that have not removed the…

February 09, 2013

The hunt in the snowy mountains for a former Los Angeles police officer suspected in three killings continued Saturday as police announced they will reopen the disciplinary proceedings that led to the fugitive's firing.

Officials will particularly re-examine Christopher Dorner's allegations that his law enforcement…

February 8, 2013

Secretary of State John Kerry holds a bilateral meeting with Canadian Foreign Minister John Baird, Friday, Feb. 8, 2013, at the State Department in Washington, Friday, Feb. 8, 2013. Beyond U.S. Canada relations and the Keystone XL pipeline project, Kerry warned Iran to come to upcoming nuclear talks prepared to talk…

February 07, 2013

An Army Veteran with disabilities is asking for the public's help in saving his…

01/24/2013

<--Eddie Saman shows off his Staten Island home Wednesday which he has insulated with blankets donated by the Red Cross. The house was badly damaged by Superstorm Sandy and will have to be renovated. Meanwhile, because of the extreme cold weather, Saman has been spending the night in a tent nearby…

02/08/2013

A new vaccine for influenza has hit the market, and it is the first ever to contain genetically-modified (GM) proteins derived from insect cells. According to reports, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently approved the vaccine, known as Flublok, which contains recombinant DNA technology and an insect virus known as baculovirus that…

February 6, 2013

Seven Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies have been notified that the department intends to fire them for being members of a secret law enforcement clique that celebrated shootings and branded its members with matching tattoos, officials said.

The Times reported last year …

"...There have been many related sequential coincidences all throughout my life, incidents that by themselves would have led nowhere. Statistically, the odds against the same or a related sequence of events happening to one individual are astronomically high. It is a series of…

February 7, 2013

The service for Navy SEAL sniper Chris Kyle will be held at 1 p.m. Monday at Cowboys Stadium.  

Thousands are expected to attend next week’s memorial service for Navy SEAL sniper Chris Kyle, …

February 7, 2013 

February 6, 2013

Most of US President Barack Obama’s hallmark health care reform law will go into place next year, but a new bipartisan review suggests it will be a slow start for the program.

In an analysis released this week, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) writes that last-minute tax changes enacted to avoid the looming…

February 6, 2013

The following information was provided to me by my DHS contact on two different occasions. Information from my first contact was previously published in two parts (here) I was asked to withhold the final portion of the information that was provided to me at that time until after the inauguration. The…

February 6, 2013

Those concerned about Facebook’s controversial privacy policies may have yet another reason to worry. The social network is reportedly developing a smartphone application which will track the location of its users – even when the app isn't running.

The app is scheduled to be released in mid-March, two anonymous…

February 5, 2013

In a furious presentation of mixed words a Newtown resident lays out her thoughts during a Bipartisan Task Force Public Hearing. 

In a strange twist of events, Susan McGuinness Getzinger (a local resident) has come forward regarding shady actions in the Connecticut school…

February 5, 2013

Former congressman and presidential contender Ron Paul is coming under attack from his own longtime political party after sending out a controversial tweet regarding the death of an ex-Navy SEAL sniper.

Rep. Paul, who only recently retired from Congress after over 20 years as a Republican representative for Texas,…